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So I recently started a new Imperial Guard project, and decided to go for Zandri Dust for the armour plates. After starting on about 20 guys, I realised that I was struggling to get an even coat on over the black primer. I did this thinking it would be alright since in the GW 'how to paint Cadians' video on Youtube, it looked fine. Now, I'm doubting it.

Does anyone else have any tips? I've been trying loads of thin coats, heavier ones (which end up uneven) and it's frustrating since a light brown underneath or a white primer would have made this go a lot faster. Shame is, the damage has already been done to my 20 or so guys with forgeworld upgrades, so I'm not enthusiastic about the idea of starting again....

On the number of grunts I've got to do, that many coats seems far too daunting. I've been mixing it with lahmian medium. I'd use a wet palette, but whenever I've tried them before it's just been too thin for the number of troops I've got to go through.

I'm testing mournfang brown as a base to go over, hopefully that'll solve it.